Just to the side stands a little one-room house, with a table set for tea, a plain single bed and a window that frames the movies so it looks like the true and only view of the outside world.

This is the newest walk-in experience from Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, pioneers of immersive installation art and frequently hailed as two of the most important artists to have emerged from the former USSR. Reminiscent, perhaps, of Plato’s allegory of the cave (which suggests the limitations of human perception of reality), it’s an oddly unsettling experience, bathing you in a glow of warm nostalgia you know to be false.

The piece works on national and universal levels as a subtle indictment of both state propaganda and the rose-coloured spectacles we all put on when we look into the past – or go to the movies to escape commonplace reality. This is a skilfully executed but fairly uncomplicated immersive installation and it’s all the more satisfying and resonant for it.